Subject: Invalid partition table
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Hans de Hartog <hans_de_hartog@hotmail.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/04/2000 08:33:20
Just installed NetBSD 1.4.2 on my 9Gb Linux-disk........
As the install.html told me (because the disk had LILO on it),
I did an fdisk -i after the install and before reboot.
Now BIOS says "Invalid partition table" and the machine is dead.
However, I CAN boot it by booting from CD, stop the count-down
and type "boot sd0a:netbsd".
How do I fix the partition table???
Here's the output of "fdisk sd0":
NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 8387 heads: 10 sectors/track: 212 (2120 sectors/cylinder)
BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 1024 heads: 255 sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)
Partition table:
0: <UNUSED>
1: <UNUSED>
2: <UNUSED>
3: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
start 63, size 17849937 (8715 MB), flag 0x80
beg: cylinder 0, head 1, sector 1
end: cylinder 1023, head 255, sector 63
and here's the output of "disklabel -r sd0":
# /dev/rsd0d:
type: unknown
disk: mydisk
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 212
tracks/cylinder: 10
sectors/cylinder: 2120
cylinders: 8387
total sectors: 17850000
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
drivedata: 0
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 205577 63 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0*- 96)
b: 1946160 205640 swap # (Cyl. 97 -
1014)
c: 17849937 63 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0*-
8419*)
d: 17850000 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -
8419*)
e: 1946160 2151800 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 1015 -
1932)
f: 13752040 4097960 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 1933 -
8419*)
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